ANSWER:
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Looks like someone has a reference design:
B.)
Here you talk about your noise problems with your 6870.
The fan on the reference cooler leaves a lot to be desired. How so? While it does allow the 6870 to operate relatively cool, it does so with a tremendous noise penalty. More so than the cards of the past - this is a screamer. Not just loud, but "nails on a chalkboard" loud when run to 100% of its speed potential. On the other hand, the fan on the HD 6850 was audible but was nowhere near what the reference design had to offer. -overclockersclub.com
Link: http://www.overclockersclub.com/revi...00series/3.htm
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Answer:
He doesn't need hot air from his GPU making things hotter:
According to these pictures below of a top vent, much of the air will go back into your case.
http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/Gallery/...-guide.aspx/19
And if we refer to this:
The VRM temperature on the card measured 81°C which is very low compared to previous cards we've tested, and the GPU core stabilized at 90°C — acceptable, but a bit on the high side. The extra heat generated by the card also put more thermal stress on the rest of the system, heating up both the southbridge and CPU by an additional 6°C.
On page4 we will see you are lying and misleading everyone, but that's not new: http://www.silentpcreview.com/article1104-page4.html
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Aren't you the same guy that wanted to look at my power bill after I claimed it was 38$? O_O ...Why would my video card fans fail? You don't need a wind tunnel to pull air out of your case.
On top of backing up all my facts. I just used your posts to back them up
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That's absolutely wonderful wow O: ! NICE PSU! In my country NCIX will charge you 50 bucks extra to put it together, install your OS, and then ship it. I never buy from newegg or non-local retailers because I'm not american, so I'm not sure about your situation ...But I'm pretty sure any enthusiast shop would do that for you for a fee of some kind.
@ the 1.5GB - 2GB video cards -> Large frame buffers will accommodate for the best possible settings that your GTX 580 will deliver. I skimped on my frame buffer years ago, and I felt sad once my cards were older. They really only matter for high resolutions and post-processing (anti-aliasing, etc)...As soon as you crank up the post-processing it fills up your frame buffer fast as hell. Up to you really, that's a nice cooler which is needed on a monster card like that. 1.5GB is decent. I have a 2GB one on my radeon, but it's a much cheaper card than yours, and I have different preferences.
Blu-ray: Practically all of these new ones are good. There's no terrible ones like BENQ on the list thank god:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...eId=1&name=12X
You might be forgetting SATA cables too...I'm not sure what accessories come in the motherboard box, you'll have to check with staff or someone else. Could be like my MSI board, that had no SATA cables in the box. Luckily I had some already.